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ASIA GAMES: NOTES courtesy of stats guru Ken Nakamura

DAY 1:

Women’s 10000m
IND won first medal in this event.
The winning margin of 0.97 second is the smallest ever in this event, replacing previous min of 1.20 by Zhong in 1990
IND won gold and silver. Previously CHN won gold and silver in 1990 and 1994
For the first time in Asian Games, JPN failed to win a medal at Women’s 10000m.
The best marks for place for 5th (32:06.74 replacing 32:46.54 by Chung in 2002) and 6th (32:16.34 replacing
32:56.35 by Maggie Chan-Roper in 2002) at Asian Games were set.
Fukushi not only failed to defend the title but failed to win the record third medal at this event.
Note that silver medalist Kavita Raut is the bronze medalist at Commonwealth Games last month

Men’s 5000m
Mahboob of BRN won the first medal for BRN at this event in the Asian Game.
For the third time in the Asian Games, QAT won two medals in this event. They won gold and bronze in 2006
and gold and silver in 1998.
The best marks for place for 6th (13:54.11) was set by Takezawa replacing 13:54.42 by Wu Wen-Chien in 2002
James Kwalia Chepkurui won second medal (after gold 4 years ago), but failed to defend the title.

WSP
Li Ling successfully defended her title. Previously five other Shot Putter won two golds in Asian Games.
CHN won gold and silver, as they have done in 2006, 1998-1978
Lin Chia-Ying’s 17.06 is the longest throw by TPE thrower.
The best mark for place for 5th (17.06 replacing 16.93 by Mori from 2002) was set.

MHT
Nazarov successfully defended his title. Previously Shigenobu and Koji Murofushi and Bi Zhong
have successfully defended their title. In fact Shigenobu Murofushi successfuly defended his title 4 times.
Nazarov’s winning throw, 76.44m, is the fourth longest throw in the Asian Games.
Only Koji Murofushi (twice) and Andrey Abduvaliyev have thrown further at the Asian Games.
Kaveh Mousavi won the first medal for IRI in this event.
Hiroaki Doi won a bronze medal with his last throw, thus kept JPN’s medal winning streak at this even alive.
(JPN won medal in every Asian Games at Men’s HT)

Women’s 100m heats
Chisato Fukushima’s time in the heat, 11.41, is the fastest by Japanese at the Asian Games, replacing 11.58 by Kitada
from 1994.

W400m heats
53.44 by Gulustan Ieso is the fastest non-qualifier for the final, replacing 55.16 by Katayama from 1998

M400m heats
46.80 by Reza Bouazar is the fastest non-qualifier for the final, replacing 47.09 from 1998

Day 2

M100m
Lao won first gold medal for CHN in this event at Asian Games. His time, 10.22, is the fastest time by CHN sprinter in
Asian Games. His winning margin, 0.02 secods, tied the smallest ever winning margin recorded four year ago.

Barakat Al Harthi won first medal fo OMA in this event at Asian Games. His third place time in the final, 10.28 is the
fastest third place time in the Asian Games, replacing 10.31 by Otsuki in 1998. Incidentally, in the first round heat
yesterday, he won the fifth heat with 10.26, the fastest time in the first round of the Asian Games.

Addition to best ever mark for 3rd, the best ever mark for 5th (10.35 replacing 10.36 by Salem Mubarak Al-Yami from
1998) and 6th (10.37 replacing 10.40 by Medvedev from 1998)

M1500m heat
3:52.56 by Ajmal Amirov is the fastest time that failed to qualify for the final in theAsian Games.
Previsouly 3:53.05 by Othman Youssef from 2006 is the fastst no-qualifer in this event.

M110mH heat
Liu Xiang’s time in the heat, 13.48, is the fastest time in the heat of this event in the Asian Games, replacing 13.57 by Li
Tong from 1994.

W100m
First gold for JPN in this event since 1966. It is also the first medal of any kind for JPN since 1978 in this event,.
The margin of victory, 0.01, ties the smallest ever recorded from 1978.
Vu won first medal for VIE in this event at Asian Games.

The best mark for place for second (11.34) tied Jayasinghe’s second place time from 4 years ago.
Takahashi’s 4th place time (11.50) is the fastest non-wind assisted 4th place time in Asian Games.
(Govindasamy ran wind assisted 11.41 when she was fourth in 1998)
Fukushima’s time in semi, 11.32, is the fastest by JPN women in the Asian Games

W400m
Olga Tereshkova successfully defended her title, thus joining Dharsha as the only two time gold medalist.
Two medal by KAZ is the first ever for KAZ. Previously, CHN (twice), IND and JPN won two medals in this event at
the Asian Games.
52.68 by Chiba is the fastest time JPN in the Asian Games, replacing 53.04 she recorded four year ago when she was
3rd.

The best ever marks for place for 5th (53.27 replacng 53.66 by Tang from 2006), and 6th (53.55 replacing 53.99 by
Maslenko from 2006) were set.

WHT
Zhang Wenxiu successfully defended the title, thus becaming the first two-time medalist at this event.
Best marks for place for 2nd (68.17 replacing 66.73 by Liu from 2002), 3rd (62.94 replacing 62.67 by Aya from 2006),
and 4th (60.54 replacing 59.74 by Murofushi from 2006) were set.
The event, contested since 2002, is completely dominated by CHN. CHN finished one-two in all three occasions.
JPN won bronze all three times.

Day 3

W20KmWalk
The winning time of 1:30:06 is an Asian Games record. Liu Hong became the first two time winner in this event.
The best marks for place for 2nd (1:30:34 replacing 1:33:19 by Sakakura from 2006), 3rd (1:32:34 replacing 1:33:40 by
Wang from 2002) were set.

MHJ
The winner, Mutaz Essa Barshim is the 2010 World Junior Champion. He won the first medal in this event for QAT.
QAT won gold and bronze. Previously, CHN (4 times), KOR and JPN (twice) won two medals in this event in the
same edition of Asian Games.
Three way tie for the bronze medal was the first in this event. However, in 2002, there was three-way tie for the silver.

WLJ
The gold medalist Jun Soonok won first medal of any kind for KOR in this event.
3cm margin of victory is the smallest ever in this event at Asian Games, replacing 4cm from 1954 and 1962.
6.53 is the longest jump by KOR jumper in Asian Games (previous best by KOR jumper in the Aisan Games was 6.26
by herself 4 years ago when she was fifth)
Yuliya Tarasova won first medal for UZB in this event.
The best mark for place was set for 4th (6.49 replacing 6.39 by LI Yong-Ae from 1998), 5th (6.37 replacing 6.31 by
Takamatsu from 1998) and 6th (6.36 replacing 6.26 by Wang Kuo-Huei from 1998).

WDT
66.18m by Li Yanfeng is the Asian Games record.
The best marks for place were set for 2nd (64.04 replacing 62.60 by Yu Hourun from 1990), 3rd (61.94 replacing 61.53
by Krishna Punia from 2006), 5th (55.42 replacing 51.68 by Yuka Murofushi from 2002) amd sixth (50.28 replacing
48.84 by Won Soon-Mi form 2002).
The defending champion Song Aimin finished second. She won silver in 2002, so it was third medal for her.
For the eighth time CHN won two medals in this event.

W1500m
The defending champion Jamal won second gold, first to defend the title in the Asian Games in this event.
Her winning time is the Asian Games record.
Truong won first medal of any kind in this event for VIE.
BRN won two medals in this event in the Asian Games. Previously CHN (thrice), PRK (twice) KOR and IND has
accomplished this feat.
The best marks for place were set for 2nd (4:09.58 replacing 4:13.19 by Wang Qingfen from 1998), 3rd (4:10.42
replacing 4:13.66 by Sunita Rani from 1998), 4th (4:11.76 replacing 4:15.91 by Noh Yu-Yeon from 2002) 5th (4:13.46
replacing 4:16.93 by Lukashova from 2002) and 6th (4:16.42 replacing 4:20.95 by Liu Xiaoping from 2002).

M1500m
Shaween set Asian Games record. He also won the first medal of any kind in this event for KSA in the Asian Games.
The best marks- for place were set for 2nd (3:37.09 replacing 3:38.08 by Bilal Mansour Belas from 2006), 3rd (3:38.39
replacing 3:38.91 by Ramzi from 2006), 4th (3:39.35 replacing 3:41.09 by Abubaker ALi Kamal from 2006), 5th (3:41.67
replacing 3:42.45 by Kobayashi from 2006) and 6th (3:42.79 replacing 3:42.92 by Shaween from 2006)

M3000mSC
The defending champion Tareq Taher improved his own Asian Games record from 8.26.85 to 8:26.89.
Taher thus joined Mubarak Shah and Susumu Takahashi as the third to defend the title in this event.
The best marks for place were set for 2nd (8:26.27 replacing 8:29.10 by Gamal Bilal Salem),

M4x100mR heat
CHN recorded the fastest time in the heat (39.03) replacing 39.17 by JPN from 2002
UAE’s time of 40.21 is the fastest non-qualifying time in this evet replaceing 40.34 by KOR from 2002.

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[b]ASIA GAMES

Day 4[/b]

WPV
CHN went one-two for the first time. They have won gold and bronze before, in 1998 and 2002 but never gold and silver.
CHN never lost this event in the Asian Games.
Best marks for place for 4th (4.15 replacing 4.00 by Kondo from 2000) were set

MDT
Hadadi’s winning mark is the Asian Games’ record. He successfully defended the title thus joining Li Weinan (three time
winner) and Praveen Kumar as the third DT to defend Asian Game crown.
Best marks for place were set for 2nd (64.56 replacing 62.11 by Dosari from 2006), 3rd (63.46 replacing 60.82 by Al
Dawodi from 2006), 4th (63.13 replacing 59.69 by Samimi from 2006) and 5th (60.98 replacing 58.54 by Wu Tao from 2006)
For the second time in Asian Games history IRI won two medals in this event. They won gold and bronze in 1974.

M110mH
Liu Xiang’s winning time is the Asian Game record replacing his own 13.15 from 2006. He became the first three time
winner in this event. Yu Zhicheng also won two gold in 1986 and 1990.
It was fourth time CHN went one-two. They done so in 2006, 1994 and 1986.
The best mark for place for 3rd (13.48 replacing 13.60 by Naito from 2006) was set.
Park Taekyong won 3rd bronze medal for KOR in this event

MLJ
KOR won both men and women’s LJ. This (man and woman winning the corresponding event) is not so unusual in LJ.
CHN has done twice, JPN four times in the Asian Games.

W100mH heat
13.57 by Jung Hyelim is the fastest non-qualifier for the final replacing 14.25 by Hwang Yun-Mi from 2002

W800m heat
2:03.23 by Margarita Matsko in heat 1 is the fastest time in the heat replacing 2:04.35 by Takezawa from 1998
2:04.27 by Yalovtseva in heat 2 is the fastest that failed to qualify for the final, replacing 2:09.31 by Klyushikina from 2006

M800m heat
1:46.47 by Mohammed Alsalhi is the fastest time in the heat replacing 1:47.61 by Li Huiquan from 2002
1:48.02 by Yang Xiaofei is the fastest time that failed to qualify for the final replacing 1:48.63 by Louraibi from 2002

Additional stats

WDT
Bronze medalist Krishna Poonia is the CWG champion
She is the fourth woman to win medal in both Asian Games and CWG, second this year after Raut at 10000m.

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[b]ASIA GAMES

Day 5[/b]

M50Km Walk
Si Tianfeng’s winning time of 3:47:04 is the Asian Games record.
The best mark for place were set for 2nd (3:47:34 replacing 3:56:16 by Imamura from 1994), 3rd (3:47:41 replacing 4:05.00
by Kosaka from 1994), and 4th (3:53:24 replacing 4:16.07 by Zou from 1998)

M200m
Ogunode became only the second sprinter to win both 200m and 400m in the Asian Games.
Previously Milkha Singh has accomplished this feat in 1958
Alsalfa won the first medal for UAE in this event at Asian Games

W200m
Fukushima became the third sprinter to win both 100m and 200m in the Asian Games.
Previously, Mona Sulaiman of PHI in 1962 and Esther Rot of ISR in 1974 won both event in the Asian Games.
Vu won the first medal for VIE in this event at the Asian Games
Khubbieva (won silver 4 years ago) won second medal in the Asian Games’ 200m, thus joining Dharsha (bronze in 1994, gold
in 1998), Wang Huei-Chen (silver in 1990, gold in 1994) and Usha (silver in 1982 and gold in 1986)

W100mH
Lee Yeon Kyung won first medal of any kind for KOR in this event at the Asian Games.
Best marks for place were set for 5th (13.29 replacing 13.30 by Vinogrodova from 2006) and 6th (13.42 replacing 13.52 by
Chan Sau Ying from 1998)

W400mH
Best marks for place were set for 5th (57.22 replacing 57.86 by Jodo from 1994) and 6th (57.25 replacing 58.80 by Azarova
from 2006).

M400mH
Ganapathiplackal won first gold medal for IND in this event at the Asian Games.
IND won both men and women’s 400mH. For the first time in the Asian Games, male and female athlete from the same
nation won 400mH.
Kawakita won bronze, matching the medal he won 4 years ago, thus joining Saito (silver in 1994 and 1998), Ahmed Hamada
(bronze in 1982 and gold in 1986), Nagao (silver in 1978 and gold in 1982) and Ogushi (silver in 1958 and gold in 1962)

M800m
Moradi’s winning time is the Asian Games’ record, replacing 1:45.72 by Lee Jin Il from 1994
He won the first gold in this event for IRI at the Asian Games.
The best mark for place were set for 2nd (1:45.88 replacing 1:46.25 by Al Azemi from 2006), 3rd (1:46.19 replacing 1:46.69
by Kim Yong-Hwan from 1994), 4th (1:46.48 replacing 1:46.82 by Sulaiman from 1994), 5th (1:46.86 replacing 1:47.16 by
Konno from 1994) and 6th (1:46.86 replacing 1:48.07 by Al-Badri from 2002).

W800m
Matsko won first gold in this event for KAZ at Asian Games. Her winning time is the second fastest in the Asian Games,
behind 1:59.85 by Qu from 1994.
Truong won first medal of any kind in this event for VIE at Asian Games.
The best mark for place was set for 3rd (2:01.36 replacing 2:02.22 by Abraham from 1994) .

WTJ
14.78 by Rypakova is Asian Games record, replacing 14.37 by Xie Limei from 2006. The winning margin of 60cm is the
largest ever in the Asian Games, replacing 39cm by Huang Qiuyan from 2002.
The defending champion Xie Limei won silver medal, thus became the first multiple medalist at this event in the Asian

Games.
The best mark for place were set for 3rd (13.85 replacing 13.78 by Li from 2006), 4th (13.73 replacing 13.60 by Ngew Sin
Mei from 2006) and 6th (13.38 replacig 13.25 by Wang Kuo-Huei from 1998)
Rypakova won first gold for KAZ in this event at the Asian Games.
Muangjan won first medal for THA in this event at the Asian Games.
Rypakova also won silver in LJ, thus became the only jumper to win medals in both LJ and TJ in the Asian Games.

WJT
Ebihara’s winning mark (national record) is the Asian Games record (with new Javelin), replacig 61.31 by Bouban Pamang
set 4 year ago.
Best marks for place were set for 4th (56.84 replacing 55.86 (and 56.12 with old Javelin from 1998) from 2006), 5th (55.96
replacing 55.62 (55.89 with old Javein from 1998) from 2006) and 6th (55.21 replacing 55.12 from 2006).
CHN won silver and bronze as then have done in 2002

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DAY 5 DECATHLON

Karpov won second gold medal thus joining CK Yang as two time champion.
Kim Kun Woo won first silver medal for KOR in Decathlon at Asian Games.
Vu van Huyen won first medal of anykind for VIE in the Asian Games.
The best marks for place were set for 3rd (7755 replacing 7683 by Moussa from 2002). 4th (7702 replacing 7649 by Kim Tae-Keun from 1994) and 6th (7568 replacing 7464 by Kim Kum Woo from 2002)

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Day 6

MJT
Murakami’s winning mark (83.15, personal best) is the second longest throw in the Asian Games.
JPN won both men and women’s JT, fifth time (1982, 1970, 1962, 1951) they have done so.
CHN also accomplished this feat in 1978
The best mark for place were set for 3rd (79.65 replacing 78.24 by Voynov from 2002), 4th (78.51 replacing 78.27 by Park
from 2002) and 5th (77.17 replacing 76.91 by Chu from 2002)

WHJ
Radzivil’s winning jump of 1.95 is the Asian Game’s record replacing 1.94 by Sato from 1990
UZB won gold and silver. Previously JPN won gold and silver in 1970 and 1951.
The best marks for places were set for 2nd (1.93 replacing 1.91 by Yefimenko and Xingjuan from 2006), 3rd (1.90 replacing
1.89 by Kim Hee-Sun from 1986) and 5th (1.87 replacing 1.84 by Imai from 1998)

MTJ
Li Yanxi became the first to defend the title successfully in this event in the Asian Games.
CHN won gold and bronze, third time they won multiple medals at this event in the Asian Games.
Best marks for place were set for 4th (16.76 replacing 16.54 by Maheswary from 2006) and 5th (16.56 replacing 16.42 by
Hazzory from 2006)

W5000m
Gebregeiorges won first medal of any kind for BRN in this event at the Asian Games
IND won silver and bronze. Previously JPN won silver and bronze in this event in 2002.
The best marks for places were set for 3rd (15:16.54 replacing 15:32.61 by Ichikawa from 2002), 4th (15:20.01 replacing
15:45.43 by Al Nadia from 2006) and 5th (15:25.08 replacing 15:49.91 by Maggie Chan from 2002)
The runner from BRN won both men’s and women’s 5000m, first to do so in the Asian Games.

M10000m
Bilisuma Gelassa of BRN set the Asian Games record, replacing 27:58.88 by Hasan Mohboob from 2006.
Rashed won second silver matching his medal from 4 years ago, while Mahboob, the defending champion won bronze.
They thus joined Ahmed Warsama, Kim Yong-Yun and Lucien Rosa as fourth and fifth runner to win two medals in this
event.
BRN won gold and bronze as they have done four years ago.
Because QAT won silver as four years ago, the medal distribution is exactly the same as four years ago.
The best marks for place were set for 2nd (27:33.09 replacing 27:59.15 by Essa Rashed in 2006) and 3rd (27:40.07 replacing
28:02.08 by Khamis from 2006).

MSP
Sultan Alhabashi’s winning mark, 20.57, is the new Asian Games’ record, replacing his own mark of 20.42 from 4 years ago.
The winning margin of 98cm ties the max winning margin recorded in 1982
Alhabashi won second gold medals, matching the feat accomplished by Liu Hao (1994, 1998), Bahadur Singh Chouhan
(1978, 1982), Joginder Singh (1966, 1970) and Parduaman Singh Brar (1954, 1958)
The best marks for place were set for 3rd (19.48 replacing 19.45 by Chang Ming-Huang from 2006), 4th (19.17 replacing
18.99 by Navpreet Singh from 2006), 5th (19.08 replacing 18.49 by Zhang Qi from 2006), 6th (18.98 replacing 18.26 by
Ahmed Gholoum from 2006)

W4x100m Relays
The best marks for place was set for 2nd (44.22 replacing 44.25 by THA from 2002).

M4x100m Relays
The winning time of 38.78 by CHN is the Asian Games record, replacing 38.82 by THA from 2002.
The best marks for place were set for 4th (39.10 replacing 39.36 by IND from 2002), and 5th (39.62 replacing 39.90 by
THA from 1994)

W4x400m Relays
The winning mark of 3:29.02 by IND is Asian Games record, replacing 3:29.11 by CHN from 1994
The best marks for place for 2nd (3:30.03 replacing 3:31.72 by KAZ from 2002), 3rd (3:30.89 replacing 3:32.43 by CHN
from 2002), and 4th (3:31:81 replacing 3:33.23 by JPN from 2002)

M4x400m Relays
The best marks for places were set for 2nd (3:02.43 replacing 3:02.62 by IND from 1998), and 3rd (3:03.66 replacing 3:04.37
by SRI from 2002)

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Sat, Nov 27 2010 : Guangzhou, Nov 27

The curtain rang down on the biggest ever Asian Games in a festive closing ceremony Saturday night as hosts China showed their overwhelming sporting prowess by sweeping 199 gold medals.

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, president of the Olympic Council of Asia, hailed the Guangzhou Asiad as “a huge success” and “one of the most outstanding” in history, Xinhua reported.

“I would like to thank the Chinese government, the Chinese people and everyone from Asia and around the world for helping make the 16th Asian Games the best Asian Games ever,” said the Asian Olympic chief.

China, which also won 119 silver and 98 bronze, topped the table for the eighth straight time, smashing its best gold tally of 183, set in the 1990 Beijing Games.

Thirty-six out of the 45 participating teams entered the medals tally in the 16-day games, in which South Korea bagged 232 medals including 76 gold, beating Japan to a distant third with 48 gold among 216 medals.

[b]After Beijing hosted the Olympics and Shanghai the World Expo, Guangzhou seized the Asian Games as an opportunity to showcase its tradition and modernity to the world.

Chinas third largest city invested a staggering 120 billion yuan (about $17.9 billion) in projects including stadiums, roads and subway lines.[/b]

Different from the water-themed opening ceremony which paid tribute to the citys seafaring heritage, the finale was more like a singing and dancing gala.

Asian artists such as Chinas Tang Can, Indias Tanya Gupta and Ravi Tripathi, Japans Ryoko Nakano, and Kazakhstans Mayra Kerei presented folk songs of their respective regions.

The sail-shaped huge LED screen in the background interacted with the performance while changing lights helped transform the field of play into starry and blue sky, representative cultural and natural landscape of Asia, from which athletes and officials from all around the continent could find their familiar rhythm.

Hours before the closing ceremony, the Chinese womens volleyball team rallied from two sets down to beat South Korea to win the last gold of the Games.

Thirty-five Olympic gold medallists, including hurdler Liu Xiang and badminton players Lin Dan, emerged the brightest stars among the 1,454-member Chinese delegation.

With 2012 London Olympics approaching, China used the Asian Games as a platform for young aspiring athletes to get international exposure and experience.

Three world records were set in weightlifting and archery, together with 12 new Asian records in swimming and cycling.

Chinese lifter Li Ping broke the snatch and total world records in the womens 53kg weightlifting, while South Koreas Kim Woo-Jin scored 1,387 points to beat the 144 arrows qualification round world mark in the mens archery.

South Korean super star Park Tae-hwan, most valuable player (MVP) in the last games, completed a golden triple in the pool by winning the 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle. He also set a new Asian record over 200m.

Lin Dan, or “Super Dan”, snatched the only title missing from his collection when he beat Malaysias world no.1 Lee Chong Wei in the mens singles final.

Liu Xiang stated his full recovery from a stunning Beijing Olympics exit by winning the mens 110m hurdles gold in a new Asian record of 13.09 seconds.

The limelight was also on those who touched hearts and never say quit.

Hong Kong cyclist Wong Wan Yiu claimed the silver despite a rib injury sustained in an early crash. Equestrian Kim Kyun-Sub from South Korea realized his dream of winning gold to honor his uncle Kim Hyung Chil, who was killed at last Asian Games when his horse threw and crushed him.

The South Korea-Japan rivalry was a selling point of the games as China has already been a runaway leader for two decades. South Korea outperformed the arch rival for the fourth consecutive times by winning 28 more gold.

Bangladesh and Macao of China were thrilled to have their first ever Asian Games gold while Bhutan is happy for just being there.

“We are very proud to be here, we dont have to win any medals, just to participate is a big thing for a country like Bhutan,” said Tshewang Nidup, Bhutans chef-de-mission.

The war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq concluded their campaigns by each winning three medals and finishing 31st and 32nd on the tally.

The otherwise perfect Games were tainted by two doping cases.

Judoka Shokir Muminov and wrestler Jakhongir Muminov, both from Uzbekistan, tested positive for the same banned stimulant, Methylhexaneamine.

The Guangzhou Games had the most sports ever contested in the games 59-year history, as it included 28 Olympic sports and 14 non-Olympic which featured 476 events.

The games witnessed the debuts of cricket, dance sport, dragon boat, roller sport and go chess.

The Asiad sports are set to be reduced as next host Incheon has proposed cutting sports such as cricket and dance in response to the OCAs decision to downsize the games.